“Cherry Lips” is track #7 on Garbage’s third album Beautiful Garbage.
It was released as single in 2001 and despite failing in major markets, it became a hit in Australia, Italy, Mexico and South America.

Shirley wrote the lyrics based loosely around two novels she had just read, Sarah and The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, written by author Laura Albert under the pseudonym of JT LeRoy.
Manson later felt that “Cherry Lips” was “an adrenaline rush” and “probably the most celebratory song we’ve ever written”.

The music video for “Cherry Lips” was directed by Joseph Kahn on a set installed in a loft located in Brooklyn, New York on October 22, 2001. Manson admitted later that she regretted the video: “We were quite literally blackmailed by our record company into making a video that we knew from the storyboard was a shockingly bad idea”, she revealed. “We fought so hard not to do it, but we didn’t hold enough cards, and so were forced to capitulate.”

In a 2015 Q&A on Reddit, Shirley Manson said “we had a concept for the video for "Cherry Lips” and it was fucking AMAZING by video director Dawn Shadforth but the record company in their infinite wisdom decided that they would reject the concept. I hope we can make it one day. It will be wicked."